Grace Slick Quotes
I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.
Quotes to Explore
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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I wanted to be Beetlejuice. I watched nonstop 'Beetlejuice' and 'The Princess Bride' growing up.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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To me, it's just like, if you have talent, and you're lucky enough to find where you fit, and you work with the right people, it's not exalted at all.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great, it just isn't how I do things.
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When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.
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M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
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When I just write something, it's usually because I love it, I love the material, but I feel like I really need a creative partner to crack it. And I certainly need and have a lot of creative partners as a director.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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The amygdala is one of those brain structures that a lot of people know a little bit about, and there's a definite tendency to conflate the amygdala and the fear response itself - as if the amygdala, and the amygdala alone, 'causes' fear.
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I'm busy communicating ideas.... I want you to know what I'm thinking. If you feel a connection, good. If you don't, fine.
